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Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass

Toronto, Ontario · Centennial Scarborough · Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park

Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass is an intersection of typical volume. It sits in Centennial Scarborough. It has a park at the corner. Nearby: 6 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
8,967
vehicles · 14-hour count, Feb 12, 2026
121 pedestrians · 1 cyclists · #1782 busiest
Collisions
13
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
4 with an injury · 8 property damage · #3977 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 14-hour count works out to close to 640 vehicles, 55% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 74 vehicles, well below the typical one per 13. That comes with about 1.3 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — 1.5 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass

Getting here

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
863895 nearest 27 m
Express
986
Blue Night
386395
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m — Lawson Rd at Highway 2a Overpass; Lawson Rd at Highway 2a Overpass East Side
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Colonel Danforth Park 555 m · 19 docks · 1 station, 19 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (7)
  • Highland Creek Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1 km
  • Ecole Elementaire Catholique Saint MichelFrench Separate · 1 km
  • St Malachy Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.3 km
  • St Brendan Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.4 km
  • Cardinal Leger Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 1.4 km
  • Centennial Road Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 1.4 km
  • and 1 more
Parks (11)
  • Highland Creek Parkette245 m
  • Morrish Parkette356 m
  • Tanis Cres Woodlot475 m
  • Colonel Danforth Park513 m
  • Bramber Woods Park679 m
  • Megan Park1.1 km
  • and 5 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Highland Creek branch1.1 km

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

There are 7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, and 22 eating places within a kilometre — well below the median of 73 within a kilometre. The nearest is Amigos Bar & Grill, 237 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2025 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés7 within 300 m · 22 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 1 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Amigos Bar & Grill · 6089 Kingston Rd237 mPassed, May 2025 · 1 infraction
Shamrock Burgers · 6109 Kingston Rd237 mPassed, Aug 2025
Tony Stacey Centre For Vetrans Care · 59 Lawson Rd255 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Kilt Pub · 371 Old Kingston Rd Unit-9277 mPassed, Jun 2026
Northern Smokes · 371 Old Kingston Rd Unit-12277 mPassed, May 2026
Marks' Pizza · 371 Old Kingston Rd278 mPassed, Oct 2025 · 1 infraction
Ted's Restaurant · 404 Old Kingston Rd299 mPassed, Apr 2026
Peggy's Caribbean Cuisine · 402 Old Kingston Rd302 mPassed, Jun 2026

Every establishment Toronto Public Health inspects under DineSafe, screened by name to leave out kitchens inside schools, care homes and offices. A conditional pass means infractions had to be fixed by a follow-up visit, not that the premises is closed.

Washrooms & water

The nearest public washroom is Colonel Danforth Park Washroom, 626 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 253 m away at Highland Creek Parkette.

  • Colonel Danforth Park Washroom · 73 Colonel Danforth Trl
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    626 m
Drinking water
Highland Creek Parkette drinking fountain · 253 m

Park washrooms, washrooms in City buildings and automated street toilets, with hours and status as the City publishes them (park washrooms are seasonal). Malls, shops and TTC stations are not included.

Child care

Two licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 176 spaces; none accepts City fee subsidy. The nearest is Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. (358 m, 55 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km2 centres · 176 spaces
Fee subsidynone
  • Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. · 297 Old Kingston Rd
    55 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    358 m
  • Beechgrove Sunshine Child Care · 4679 Kingston Rd
    121 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, school age · $10-a-day
    930 m

Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 214 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 43 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.5 km away.

FireFire Station 214 · 1.3 km745 Meadowvale Rd
Police43 Division · 1.5 km4331 Lawrence Avenue East
AmbulanceTPS 43 Division/EMS Stn 26 · 1.5 km4331 Lawrence Ave E

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots186 lots · ≈14,920 spaces · 44.8 ha
Within 500 m39 lots · ≈1,790 spaces
Green P (public)none within 2 km
EV charging (City)none within 2 km
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby

Nearest lots: 184 m away, ≈91 spaces; 186 m away, ≈3 spaces; 210 m away, ≈7 spaces; 217 m away, ≈20 spaces; 220 m away, ≈360 spaces; 231 m away, ≈23 spaces.

Lot count and area from the City's topographic mapping of parking-lot footprints (every visible surface lot, public or private); spaces are estimated at one per 30 m² of lot. Lots not run by Green P are private, commercial or institutional and may be for customers or residents only. Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; rates are not shown because that list is stale — check Green P). EV chargers are City-operated only; on-street and underground parking are not included.

Traffic volume

The City's latest turning-movement count — 14-hour, Feb 12, 2026

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. The north leg carries the load — 3,493 southbound vehicles, or 39% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 2,589. The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 939 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 26% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (747). Heavy vehicles made up 4.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north3,493southbound · 0 bikes · 3.4% heavy
From the west2,885eastbound · 1 bikes · 6.3% heavy
Total vehicles8,967121 pedestrians · 1 cyclists · 4.6% heavy
From the east2,589westbound · 0 bikes · 4.4% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour747 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour939 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count14-hour · Feb 12, 2026

Approach figures are vehicles entering the intersection from that leg over the whole count. A count is one day's traffic, not an annual average; the City recounts on an ad-hoc schedule.

How fast traffic moves here

Midblock speed counts on the intersection's streets, the nearest school-zone speed sign, and traffic calming

The City's most recent midblock count on Lawson Rd between Old Sweats Lane and Meadowvale Rd (371 m away, Oct 2009) recorded volume only — about 7,124 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Lawson Rd · Old Sweats Lane – Meadowvale Rd · 371 mOct 2009 · 3 days7,124

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; the 85th-percentile speed is the figure engineers use — 85% of drivers were at or below it. Counts are ad hoc, so some are years old. A midblock reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data.

All police-reported collisions

Every collision reported to Toronto Police within 65 m, any severity, 2016–2025

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 3 collisions. 31% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 8% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Mar 10, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 1.5 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions13#3977 of 5,508
With an injury4#3013 of 4,660
Property damage only8
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201418latest Mar 10, 2026

Source: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data — every collision reported to police since 2014, within 65 m of this node. Records through Jun 30, 2026.

Killed or seriously injured

Collisions in which someone died or was seriously injured, within 65 m, 2016–2025 — the basis of the danger rankings

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 2006.

KSI = killed or seriously injured. A collision is counted if its recorded location is within 65 m of this intersection's centreline node, whether the police coded it as intersection-related or mid-block. Records can lag a year or more, so the current year is excluded from rankings.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle100house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 25, 2018. Police offset every occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing, so these are thefts on the streets and premises around this node, not necessarily at the corner itself. Other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see Centennial Scarborough.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 13 lesser collisions. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.

How busy is Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass?

An intersection of typical volume. It ranks #1782 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 55% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass?

There is no Green P car park within 2 km. The City's mapping shows 186 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 14,920 spaces — 39 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots.

How do I get to Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass by transit?

Bus routes 86, 38, 95, 986 within 1 km (nearest stop: Lawson Rd at Highway 2a Overpass, 27 m).

What restaurants are near Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass?

7 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 22 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Amigos Bar & Grill (237 m), Shamrock Burgers (237 m), Tony Stacey Centre For Vetrans Care (255 m), Kilt Pub (277 m) and Northern Smokes (277 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass?

The nearest is Colonel Danforth Park Washroom, 73 Colonel Danforth Trl, 626 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass?

Two licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 176 spaces in total; none accepts City fee subsidy and all are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Children's Land Learning Centre Inc. (358 m, 55 spaces) and Beechgrove Sunshine Child Care (930 m, 121 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

How many thefts are reported at Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and no bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Centennial Scarborough page.

What neighbourhood is Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass in?

Lawson Rd & Highland Creek Overpass is in Centennial Scarborough (City of Toronto neighbourhood 133). It is in Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park, represented by Councillor Neethan Shan.

Sources

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